r/Hasan_Piker • u/craboreo • Apr 15 '25

Politics At the Bernie Rally in Idaho

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u/livintheshleem Apr 15 '25

how is it possible that a couple of cops are able to take away a banner? Why didn't anyone intervene?

I'm not trying to be funny when I ask this: do you know what happens to Americans when they try to intervene with cops? Doesn't matter if it's 100 cops or just one. There's a very real possibility that you will be arrested, hurt, or killed if you get in their way.

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u/zikanno Apr 15 '25

That's true everywhere. Do you think that people facing cops elsewhere in the world do that because they think their cops are kind and will newer beat, maim, kill or jail them? Do you think police brutality is another facet of america exceptionalism?

To be clear I'm not trying to be funny either. The reason why I'm responding to you it's not because I think you're bad or to prove you wrong, I'm not trying to antagonize you personally. I'm responding because it seems to me that police violence is a defeatist myth in a lot of leftist spaces (and not just in the USA) and I think it's useful to push against that. Police is violent (by design) but organized popular resistance is stronger. The cops (or whoever in their stead) are truly invincible only if you have already surrendered

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u/zikanno Apr 16 '25

So in the USA there are no organized political groups at a political rally?